Word: dipping
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...fear of the Major's since the start, especially in hard times, has been that professionals might begin palming themselves off as simon-pures. But 30 years in and around the theatre have taught the Major to spot a pro as surely as a cop can spot a dip. Usually the Major's manner is kindly, helpful, encouraging, even fatherly. But when professionals appear all the love goes out of his voice. He becomes short, sharp, tries to give them the air and be done with them as soon as possible...
...desperation" asked her husband to accept the Hitchcock reservations to the Treaty of Versailles in order to get it ratified by the Senate and have "this awful thing settled," he replied: "Little girl, don't you desert me. . . . Better a thousand times to go down fighting than to dip your colours to dishonorable compromise...
...boys on bicycles meandered along a Dorsetshire lane. Suddenly over a dip in the road roared a motorbike, doing about 55. To avoid the boys its rider swerved violently, skidded, lost control, catapulted over the handlebars. Six days later, without regaining consciousness, he died. So finished, at 46, the man known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia...
...McKinley Schumpf ate too much peanut butter Wednesday and was out of school Thursday with a stomach ache. . . . Murilyn Estes uses her white shoes for an autograph al bum and likes to have all her friends sign their names along with little rhymes of poetry, such as : 'I dip my pen in ink and hope your feet don't stink.' " Editor Lath ers gets into plenty of legal fights, but as a onetime law student usually wins his own case. His paper has one catchall headline in which the first few words change each week, such...
...dip a cloth in the water and put it around your head...